Taking advantage of the better weather today, we went to finish off the task of installing a couple of sheets of cement boards to complete the gable triangular section of the wall. Then we tidied away the remaining spare cement sheets and stored them in our sheet material storage tent. We have six sheets left […]

Today, we proceeded to cut six rafters to fill in the sloping sides of the dormer roof structure, and then four vertical posts to fill in the gable flat extension of the wall going up. On Monday, we will put up two cement boards on the gable wall to get that covered up and then […]

This morning, we carried on with the manufacturing and installing of framework pieces to build up the “Dormer” roof section ready for the Conservatory. The two long valley rafters were finished and got installed up on the “P” section of the roof. We had to file away the edge of the cement board so these […]

After a delayed start, we got the final three “F” rafters cut and installed up into the Side Porch Roof structure. Then we dismantled the scaffolding tower to move it to the far side of the house where we will have our Conservatory. This will join to the house with a ‘seamless’ transition, so the […]

We resumed our work on creating the two diagonal Hip Rafters, putting in the bird mouth and slicing the bevel ends and getting both up and installed. Then we measured the position for the four side rafters (two on each side for the E and G sections), cut in the 32degrees angled bird mouth using […]

This morning with patchy sunshine but quite warm, we went and glued and screwed up a collection of cement boards to cover up the gable wall framework we installed last week for the Side Door Porch. The 12mm thick sheets, two of them, had a groove routed along the long edge and then cut in […]

We carried on with the creation of the basic framework to form the Gable end to extend the wall up over the Side Door and Utility Room window. The first bit was the extension to the E10, E11 and E12 rafters, which we had made yesterday and they got installed this morning, all glued and […]

Today we started work on our second porch, the one over the side door situated in our Utility Room. We took our technical drawing, two lengths of our new fatter 95mm by 45mm timber and created several pieces to build up the framework to form the basic roof shape. The horizontal ridge sits on a […]

Today, in glorious sunshine, we proceeded to installed our fifteen new rafters we made on Tuesday and got them glued and nailed into place on the Front Porch to form the “C” roof section and completed the two side “B” and “D” sections of the roof too. As you can see, all went quite well […]

The day was spent on updating the drawings to finalise the design and measurements of the real world outside, so the Side Porch and the Conservatory “dormer” roof framework are accurately representing what we will need to do when we come to cut, slice and plane various pieces of timber to form these structures. The […]